From a evening watchman earning a pittance to graduating from the hallowed portals of IIT and now an Assistant Professor at IIM, Ranchi, it has been a outstanding journey for 28-year-old Ranjith Ramachandran, inspiring several to fight adverse situations in their lives.
“An IIM professor was born here,” reads his post on Facebook, along with a image of his dilapidated tiled hut covered with a tarpaulin sheet to avoid rainwater from seeping in.
His inspirational April 9 post in which he shared his story, went viral, garnering more than 37,000 likes. Finance Minister T M Thomas Isaac also took to Facebook to congratulate Ramachandran, who goes by the name ”Ranjith R Panathoor” on social media, saying he s a supply of inspiration to everybody.
Ramachandran was working as a evening watchman at a BSNL phone exchange at Panathur in Kasaragod, whilst he pursued his Economics degree from Pious Xth College in the district.
“I attended college during day time and worked at the telephone exchange at night,” he posted.
Graduating with honours, he got into IIT, Madras, exactly where he discovered it complicated to study as he knew only Malayalam. Despondent, he decided to quit the PhD programme, but was persuaded by his guide Dr Subhash not to do so.
“I decided to fight and realise my dream,” he wrote.
Fight he did and earned his doctorate final year. For the final two months, he was an Assistant Professor at Christ University, Bengaluru.
“I never thought the post would go viral. I posted my life story, hoping that it would inspire a few others. I want everyone to dream good and fight for their dreams. I want other people to get inspired from this and find success,” he told reporters.
Ramachandran recalled in his post that he practically gave up his college education due to monetary hardships. His father is a tailor and mother, a everyday wage worker beneath the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
The Finance Minister in his post, praised Ramachandran, saying “From the moment he felt he was defeated, he turned his life and achieved success and it”s an inspiration toeveryone.
We have before us the life stories of great personalities,including K R Narayanan, who attained success
with extraordinary willpower and became the first citizen of the country,” he posted and shared Ramachandran’s post.
“The lives of people like Ranjith, who refuse to get discouraged due to various crisisand use education as a weapon to overcome social and economic backwardness, are an
inspiration to all,” he mentioned.
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